2023-04-18 15:12:45
On the second day of the bloody clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, Ahmed Al-Badawi, one of those injured by projectile shrapnel, was taken to the “Al-Now Hospital” in Omdurman, only to be surprised that there was only one doctor and three nurses.
Al-Badawi, a civil activist, told Al-Hurra website, “I was shocked by the lack of a medical staff, even though the hospital is one of the largest in all of Sudan, and it serves the revolution region and a large part of the northern countryside.”
On Monday evening, Al-Badawi and a number of activists from the area’s residents began attempts to restore the hospital to work, as the medical staff were afraid to leave their homes for fear of stray bullets, during the armed clashes between the two parties to the conflict in Sudan.
Al-Badawi said, “We contacted the medical director of the hospital and young doctors from neighboring neighborhoods, encouraged them to volunteer, and secured their movements with our private cars.”
He added, “Indeed, some doctors returned from the hospital, and others from the region, to work, and the number of doctors currently working reached 9 and 15 nurses, and the hospital returned to work today, Tuesday, including the dialysis center, after it had stopped for one day.”
He added that the hospital’s operational plan in the first phase is for work to last from nine in the morning until five in the evening, provided that the period increases with the availability of medical personnel.
And released the Bedouin “> calls Through social networking sites for health workers in the area near the hospital, to come to volunteer and serve the sick and injured.
Although other hospitals suffer from a lack of capabilities, “the position of the hospital in terms of medical tools is good, and the problem is only with the medical staff,” according to the activist.
This civil initiative comes from the residents of the region, at a time when the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said, on Tuesday, that it is almost impossible to provide humanitarian services in and around the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and warned that the country’s health system is at risk of collapse.
Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has killed at least 185 people and wounded more than 1,800 others, according to United Nations data, on Tuesday, while the international community is calling for an end to the fighting.
In separate statements, the World Health Organization said it had so far documented three attacks on healthcare facilities.
“Attacks on health care (facilities) are a flagrant violation of humanitarian law and the right to health care, and must stop now,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said.
Harris explained that hospitals in Khartoum are sorely short of life-saving supplies, and that power outages make it difficult to provide basic services.
“It is very dangerous for anyone to move anywhere, which makes it very difficult for medical staff to reach hospitals,” she added.
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